Lyle is about to get a new home.

The 150 million-year-old, 60-foot-long camarasaur will be the centerpiece of a new Kansas University exhibit at Science City, the museum in Union Station in Kansas City, Mo.

Cleaning the surface of Lyle the camarasaur's upper arm bone are T.J. Meehan, vertebrate paleontology graduate student, right, and Barb Parrish, volunteer from Shawnee, in the Kansas University Museum of Natural History. Lyle will be the centerpiece of a new exhibit at Science City in Kansas City, Mo.

Construction on the $739,000 project will begin during a ceremony at 11 a.m. today.

“It’s a great opportunity for us,” said Brad Kemp, associate director of the KU Natural History Museum.

The exhibit will feature museum staff and volunteers in an open lab, preparing the dinosaur found in Wyoming. It is set to open in February.

KU officials have said they hoped the exhibit would help expand the Natural History Museum’s profile in the Kansas City area.

Kemp said about $600,000 of the $739,000 needed for construction had been collected. About $500,00 of that came from Bistate Commission tax dollars, and the remainder came from the Luce Foundation and the Oppenheimer Foundation.

“It’s pretty close,” he said. “The Bistate Commission was sort of the biggest hurdle.”

Kemp said the exhibit was intended to be a permanent fixture at Science City.

“We’ve got enough (dinosaurs) to sustain it for a while,” he said.